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Why We IAF Pilots Love Our Ray-Bans

'I was a young pilot in the IAF and Tom Cruise (with his genuine Ray-Bans) was now an icon with his sensational performance in Top Gun.''The IAF, maybe influenced by the movie, decided to 'issue'......

Parliament inauguration amid protests: Heavy security in Lutyens' Delhi

Thousands of police personnel have been deployed and multiple layers of barricades put in place in the Lutyens' Delhi area on Sunday as part of the security arrangement for the inauguration of the......

Delhi's Red Line, Violet Line, Green Line resume services

Delhi Metro's Red Line, Violet Line and Green Line resumed services on Thursday after being closed for 172 days due to the COVID-19 pandemic, officials said. IMAGE: Commuters waiting to board a......

Delhi Metro's Blue, Pink lines reopen after 171-day COVID hiatus

Delhi Metro's Blue Line and Pink Line resumed services with interchange facilities at nine stations on Wednesday after being closed for 171 days due to the COVID-19 pandemic, officials said.......

PM Modi to move to a new home by 2024

Used since 1984 when late Rajiv Gandhi became the PM, the current residence was built over 12 acres of land, based on designs by New Delhi’s chief architect Edwin Lutyens. However, with a new......

Some questions for Parliament panel to ask RBI guv

James Wilson has been tracking the demonetisation drive since it was announced by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on November 8. During his investigation, he discovered that contrary to claims, no new......

Budget: Delhi Metro gets Rs 5,579 crore

The fast expanding Delhi Metro has been alloted Rs 5,579 crore (Rs 55.79 billion) in the Union Budget, a jump of about 31 per cent over the previous year, which the authorities described as......

Metro's phase III set to transform the way Delhi travels

Metro likely to keep lakhs of cars off city's roads The rapidly expanding Delhi Metro, in its 14th year, is set to spread its wings further by venturing deep into the National Capital Region (NCR)......

ITO Metro station thrown open to public

Trains will be available at ITO at a frequency of seven and a half minutes during peak hours The centrally located ITO station made its debut in the expanding network of Delhi Metro on Monday as......

DLF sells wind turbine projects for Rs 240.9 cr

Realty major DLF on Friday announced sale of its wind turbine projects in Tamil Nadu and Rajasthan for Rs 240.9 crore (Rs 2.4 billion) to two separate entities as part of its strategy to exit......

Mammootty Gets Off A Bus; Goes Down A Rabbit Hole

Nanpakal Nerathu Mayakkam is a masterpiece, and like most masterpieces of the cinema, it's a great act of folly, observes Sreehari Nair. IMAGE: Mammootty in Nanpakal Nerathu Mayakkam. In Nanpakal......

X: A piece of kitsch with incidental joys and a lot to crib about

'Mistaking carnality for sensuality, X rings as too literal-minded and too talky, with a technique that just about drains any real density or genuine playfulness that may exist beneath all the......

The BEST of Hrishikesh Mukherjee

On Hrishikesh Mukherjee's 91st birth anniversary on September 30, we bring back a Rediff Special done on the brilliant filmmaker's Best Films on August 2006. Read on:Hrishikesh Mukherjee was a......

Elizabeth Taylor passes away

Elizabeth Taylor, the actress who became a legend with her heady mix of beauty, a jet-set lifestyle and outspoken activism, died here today following heart failure. She was 79. The three-time Oscar......

India must learn to respect its heroes

It was an expected end to the series, if not for two superstars who seem swamped by the inexorable march of time. Both are left-handers and one-day openers and were lynchpins of the side not very......

Don't miss the chance to see Tendulkar

During the past week I have been overwhelmed by the positive comments of the general public in response to my intention to retire from international cricket after the Indian series. People of all......

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